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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2021
Hill-rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US);
Steven Alan Dixon, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Keith A. Huster, Sunman, IN (US);
Michael S. Hood, Batesville, IN (US);
James Maurice Allen, Batesville, IN (US);
John D. Christie, Batesville, IN (US);
Jack Barney Sing, Batesville, IN (US);
Dan R. Tallent, Hope, IN (US);
Umesh Jairamdas Rajani, Cary, NC (US);
Clay Gerome Owsley, Pittsboro, IN (US);
Thomas F. Heil, Batesville, IN (US);
Richard Joseph Schuman, Sr., Cary, NC (US);
Timothy D. Wildman, Metamora, IN (US);
Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods of associating beds and/or rooms and/or patients are provided. One system and method involves using a signature of emitted light to determine a location of a patient bed in a healthcare facility. Another system and method involves reading a bar code from an array of redundant bar codes. Still another system and method involves manually entering location information on a graphical user interface of a patient bed for subsequent transmission. A further system and method involves sending bed ID and location ID along parallel paths from two independent circuits on a patient bed for receipt by two different transceivers and ultimately by two different remote computers that cooperate to associate the bed ID with the location ID. Still a further system and method involves using circuitry on a bed to mutate a received location ID and a bed ID into a single unique mutated ID such as by adding the location ID and bed ID and then performing a hashing operation.